More Bensen Days Pictures

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A nice Single place Aircommand I found in the tent camping area

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This is what woke us up every morning at sunrise!

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My friend Barry's gyrobee surrounded by Dominators! His machine took home a award for best workmanship! Go barry!

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Brent Brown and his custom two place gyro. Brent was there to get his gyro BFI rating from Mike Solano

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Catfish and Davids gyros taking a break from the Sun.

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Don Macgregor flew in with this Team Hi max ultralight. He also had his Aircommand gyro there as well

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Terry Wells German Replica plane was there. What a impressive airplane!

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Phil, another Sunstate gyrohead brought over his 1945 Aeronca Champ

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Mike Bantum's Aircommand

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This flew in twice. We also had two Rotorway Execs, Two or three R-22 and R-44's and a neat little single place Helicopter come in

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Single place helicopter

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another view of it

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Jim Waite and his machine

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Here is Mike in a Cow pasture after a forced landing due to a Hirth engine out. I flew in with my Phantom with tools to fix his engine and he flew it back out of the field.

Mike won a Charmin award for the engine out landing. Tim Verroi who drove over and walked out to the gyro got chased by a charging Bull and that got Tim a Charmin award too! I think Tim needed another roll

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McGowan coming back in from a flight

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A few guys getting ready to go flying

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McGowan sideways hanging on the prop

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Getting ready for a special flight Saturday morning

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Seven gyro missing man formation flight to honor Charlie Presnell who passed away this past year

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After the fly over

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Very nice sportcopter

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Tim Verroi and Dan Leslie

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Lewis had this for a gas cap...

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Here is Mike in a Cow pasture after a forced landing due to a Hirth engine out.
This is remarkable. In a separate thread on this forum devoted to engine outs, the question was asked why it was that gyros seemed to have so many engine outs. The rash of replies to the original post denied this was a true reflection of the matter. But here we have another. I've been following this forum for about a month now, and I don't think I've been quietly amazed at the number of engine out reports.

Why is this?

This sort of frequency would be unheard of in GA circles. Is it because gyros are inexpensive, so we use cheap engines? Is it possibly to do with a lack of rigorous maintainance? Is it (god forbid) because gyro pilots do not always do comprehensive preflight checks?

I find it hard to believe that a good engine (Subaru, Rotax, Mazda rotary etc) would fail with anywhere near the frequency that I read of engine outs in this forum. :confused:

Confused,
Duncan

[GyroRon]

Please don't buger up this thread by changing subjects. This engine out was a Spark plug that came un screwed. It had nothing to do with the engine being a gyro engine, it is a popular Hirth engine used on ultralights and powered parachutes as well as gyros. Bottom line is Hirth engines are not as dependable as a Lycoming on a Piper Archer.

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Ron did a great job of setting up camp. Great tent with 'awning' tent over it to give a great shade rest. Power, table chairs and more. I don't know where the bottle came from but it was not from Ron or I.

Duncan, I have a reply for you. I will start it in a new thread.